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Macbeth PPT
Macbeth Act 1 vocab
Attributes of a play
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1300-
1300-1400s: guild plays >cycles of plays
which dramatized whole history of human
race (the Creation, fall from grace, etc.)
Change…
Change…Eventually, comedy is incorporated
into religion and plays start to demonstrate
the English ability to mix the comic and the
serious.
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The Renaissance Theater
Types of Pre-
Pre-Renaissance Plays:
Miracle and mystery:
mystery: taught people
stories from the Bible and saints’
saints’ legends.
Moralities:
Moralities: taught people how to live and
die.
Interludes:
Interludes: early 1500s—
1500s—playwrights
stop being anonymous.
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The Globe
Theater
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William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Wrote 36 plays, and 154 sonnets
His works show detailed knowledge of many
different trades
He wrote to satisfy patrons, not as a means of
personal expression
1599: his company, Lord Chamberlains’
Chamberlains’ Men,
finances The Globe
1600-
1600-1607: period of his greatest productivity
1610: retires to Stratford
William
Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
1564-1616
“Shakespeare’
Shakespeare’s characters represent such a vast
range of human behavior and attitudes that they
must be products of his careful observation and
fertile imagination rather than extensions of
himself. A critic named Desmond McCarthy once
said that trying to identify Shakespeare the man
in his plays is like looking at a very dim portrait
under glass: The more you peer at it, the more
you see only yourself”
yourself” (294). In other words,
Shakespeare does not reveal himself in his
plays; rather, he reveals universal truths about
human nature.
An Introduction
to Macbeth
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The Cast of Characters
Macbeth
The Cast of
Characters
Lady Macbeth
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The Cast of Characters
The Witches
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The Cast of Characters
Macduff
The Cast of
Characters
Banquo
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Macbeth
Tragedy - Drama about real people, whose deeds
are recorded in history.
The Real Macbeth – Shakespeare took the main
events of the real Macbeth’
Macbeth’s life from the book
Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland
(1577).
The historical Macbeth had a more legitimate claim
to the throne than Shakespeare’
Shakespeare’s Macbeth. He
gained the throne, and ruled successfully with the
help of nobles who were dissatisfied with Duncan.
Macbeth
So, why did he change it?
- Shakespeare wanted to explore
events and attitudes of his own time
(The Gunpowder Plot of 1605).
- Altered to pay homage to his king
and his country.
- Shakespeare was more interested in
psychological truth than historical fact
the struggles of “real”
real” people
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Act 1 Vocabulary
1. Plight – a condition, state, or situation that is
typically unfavorable.
2. Hurly-
Hurly-burly – noisy disorder and confusion
3. Minion – follower of someone in power; servant
4. Lavish – using or giving in great amounts
5. Corporal – of the human body; physical
6. Prophetic – foretelling events as if by divine
inspiration
7. Surmise – to guess; to think without much
evidence
8. Harbinger – anything that foreshadows a future
event
Vocabulary continued…
9. Rapt – deeply engrossed or absorbed
10. Missives – a written message; a letter
11. Metaphysical – based on abstract or speculative
thinking
12. Remorse – deep or painful regret for
13. Beguile – to take away from by cheating or
deceiving
14. Sovereign – a king, queen, or other supreme ruler
15. Purveyor – a person who provides provisions,
especially food
16. Trammel – something that restricts activity,
expression, or progress
17. Chamberlains – an officer who manages the
household of a sovereign.
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